Music and rhythm

Román-Caballero, R., et al. (2026). Common evidence, multiple interpretations: Commentaries on a multilab study on musicians’ short-term memory. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 9(2), 1–14. doi:10.1177/25152459261445951
Román-Caballero, R., et al. (2026). Attention and vigilance advantages related to formal musical training across childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. British Journal of Psychology. doi:10.1111/bjop.70068
Talamini, F., Grassi, M., [...], Román-Caballero, R., et al. (2026). Music Ensemble: a large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians. Scientific Data. doi:10.1038/s41597-026-06654-0
Grassi, M., Talamini, F., [...], Román-Caballero, R., et al. (2025). Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? A multilab study. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/25152459251379432
Román-Caballero, R., Trujillo, L., Martín-Sánchez, P. C., Trainor, L., Huertas, F., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2025). Relative age effect in formal musical training. Cognitive Development, 75, 101603. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2025.101603
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., Martín-Sánchez, P. C., Lupiáñez, J., & Capizzi, M. (2024). Influence of rhythmic contexts on perception: No behavioral and eye-tracker evidence for rhythmic entrainment. Consciousness and Cognition, 126. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2024.103789
Román-Caballero, R., & Lupiáñez, J. (2022). Suggestive but not conclusive: An independent meta-analysis on the auditory benefits of learning to play a musical instrument. Commentary on Neves et al. (2022). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, 104916. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104916
Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M. A., Trainor, L. J., & Lupiáñez, J. (2022). Please don't stop the music: A meta-analysis of the cognitive and academic benefits of instrumental musical training in childhood and adolescence. Educational Research Review, 35, 100436. doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100436
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Attentional networks functioning and vigilance in expert musicians and non- musicians. Psychological Research, 85(3), 1121–1135. doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01323-2
Román-Caballero, R., Arnedo, M., Triviño, M., & Lupiáñez, J. (2018). Musical practice as an enhancer of cognitive function in healthy aging—A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLOS One, 13(11), e0207957. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0207957

Attention

Britt, N., Román-Caballero, R., Lee, F., Raghuraman, S., & Sun, H. J. (2026). Hemispheric asymmetry for visual information processing in 3D space. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 181. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106504
Coll-Martín, T., Román-Caballero, R., Martínez-Caballero, M. D. R., Martín-Sánchez, P. D. C., Trujillo, L., Cásedas, L., ... & Lupiáñez, J. (2023). The ANTI-Vea-UGR Platform: A free online resource to measure attentional networks (alertness, orienting, and executive control) functioning and executive/arousal vigilance. Journal of Intelligence, 11(9), 181. doi:10.3390/jintelligence11090181
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2023). Changes in response criterion and lapse rate as general mechanisms of vigilance decrement: Commentary on McCarley and Yamani (2021). Psychological Science, 34(1), 132–136. doi:10.1177/09567976221121342
Román-Caballero, R., Martín-Arévalo, E., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Attentional networks functioning and vigilance in expert musicians and non- musicians. Psychological Research, 85(3), 1121–1135. doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01323-2
Luna, F. G., Román-Caballero, R., Barttfeld, P., Lupiáñez, J., & Martín-Arévalo, E. (2020). A High-Definition tDCS and EEG study on attention and vigilance: Brain stimulation mitigates the executive but not the arousal vigilance decrement. Neuropsychologia, 142, 107447. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107447

Social cognition

Ponce, R., Marotta, A., Román-Caballero, R., Tanaka, Y., Akçeşme, Ş., Chacón-Candia, J. A., Milliken, B., Casagrande, M., & Lupiáñez, J. (2026). When arrows behave like eyes: Reversal of spatial stroop interference by visual masking. Cognition, 275. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2026.106623
Chacón-Candia, J. A., Román-Caballero, R., Aranda-Martín, B., Casagrande, M., Lupiáñez, J., & Marotta, A. (2023). Are there quantitative differences between eye-gaze and arrow cues? A meta-analytic answer to the debate and a call for qualitative differences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 144, 104993. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104993
Román-Caballero, R., Marotta, A., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Target–background segregation in a spatial interference paradigm reveals shared and specific attentional mechanisms triggered by gaze and arrows. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(11), 1561–1573. doi:10.1037/xhp0000953
Román-Caballero, R., Marotta, A., & Lupiáñez, J. (2021). Spatial interference triggered by gaze and arrows. The role of target background on spatial interference. Psicológica, 42(2), 192–209. doi:10.2478/psicolj-2021-0010
Marotta, A., Lupiáñez, J., Román-Caballero, R., Narganes-Pineda, C., & Martín- Arévalo, E. (2019). Are eyes special? Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for a dissociation between eye-gaze and arrows attentional mechanisms. Neuropsychologia, 129, 146–152. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.03.017
Marotta, A., Román-Caballero, R., & Lupiáñez, J. (2018). Arrows don’t look at you: Qualitatively different attentional mechanisms triggered by gaze and arrows. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 2254–2259. doi:10.3758/s13423-018-1457-2

Meta-science

Sanabria, D., Román-Caballero, R., Holgado, D., Bartoš, F., Luque-Casado, A., Fernández-del-Olmo, M. A., & Ciria, L. (2026). Running ahead of the evidence? Rethinking the exercise–cognition consensus after five decades of research. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2026.07.003
Szaszi, B., [...] Román-Caballero, R., [...] & Nosek, B. (2026). Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, 135–142. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09844-9
Román-Caballero, R. (2025). Reassessing the cognitive benefits of physical activity: A meta-analytic reanalysis of Mavilidi et al.(2025). Psychological Bulletin. doi:10.1037/bul0000490
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., Melita, D., Román-Caballero, R., et al. (2025). Manipulations of perceived economic inequality: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. doi:10.1037/xge0001837
Ciria, L.F., Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M.A., Holgado, D., Luque-Casado, A., Perakakis, P., & Sanabria, D. (2024). Reply to: Do not underestimate the cognitive benefits of exercise. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1464–1466. doi:10.1038/s41562-024-01950-4
Holgado, D., Sanabria, D., Vadillo, M. A., & Román-Caballero, R. (2024). Zapping the brain to enhance sport performance? An umbrella review of the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on physical performance. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105821. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105821
Román-Caballero, R., & Mioni, G. (2023). Time‑based and event‑based prospective memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients: A systematic review and meta‑analysis. Neuropsychology Review. doi:10.1007/s11065-023-09626-y
Holgado, D., Mesquida, C., & Román-Caballero, R. (2023). Assessing the evidential value of mental fatigue and exercise research. Sports Medicine, 53, 2293–2307. doi:10.1007/s40279-023-01926-w
Ciria, L. F., Román-Caballero, R., Vadillo, M. A., Holgado, D., Luque-Casado, A., Perakakis, P., & Sanabria, D. (2023). An umbrella review of randomized control trials on the effects of physical exercise on cognition. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 928–941. doi:10.1038/s41562-023-01554-4
Román-Caballero, R., Sanabria, D., & Ciria, L. F. (2023). Let’s go beyond “the effect of”: Reappraising the impact of ordinary activities on cognition. Psicológica, 44(1), e15144. doi:10.20350/digitalCSIC/15144
Mioni, G., Román-Caballero, R., Clerici, J., & Capizzi, M. (2021). Prospective and retrospective timing in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Behavioural Brain Research, 410, 113354. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113354